Tag: Robotics
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What To Use Microlinear Actuators For
The following is a featured article. -Ed. Linear actuators websites are critical for students taking a technology course. Micro linear actuators can be used for different purposes and in a variety of projects. Straight motion applications require the incorporation of the use of micro linear actuators. There has also been an increased popularity in home…
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Another Job Lost To Robots: Shelf Stock Checker
When items are running low in your local supermarket, an actual human has to first notice this, and then start the process of re-ordering and restocking. Granted, it’s what grocery stores have been doing since forever, but now thanks to Tally, an autonomous robot from Sembe robotics, the kid in charge of doing this may…
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Deal Of The Day: 47% Off On Makeblock Arduino Starter Robot Kit
With the emergence of small computing platforms like Arduino, the field of robotics is becoming increasingly approachable. But if you want to experiment, you have to start somewhere. The Makeblock Arduino Starter Robot Kit will help you get your head around fundamental concepts, while building a functional robot in the process. Who said mastering electronics…
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Deal Of The Day: 12% Off On Cherokey 4WD Basic Arduino Robotics Kit
Remote controlled vehicles are pretty cool to start with. When the vehicle is also a robot with sensors and some semi-autonomous behaviour, that’s better. And, as is the case with the Cherokey 4WD Basic Arduino Robotics Kit, when it’s a robot that you build yourself, well then… you’ve got our interest. Meet Cherokey 4WD, a…
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Deal Of The Day: $21 Off On Romo Personal Robot
We wrote about Romo a couple of years ago, and you guys seemed to like him. It’s a little robot on tracks that uses your iPhone as its brains. Start the app, dock the phone, and watch as Romo roams around your home, following your commands and even dancing to music. “You can train Romo…
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These Little Blocks Could Herald Self-Assembling Structures
The folks at MIT are always cooking up some interesting technology, and the latest we’ve come across is the self-stacking M-Blocks. Each little cube contains a radio, a printed circuit board, a flywheel that can spin up to 20,000 rpm, and magnets that line the edges. With these, the cubes are able to move around…
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Flappy Bird Playing Robot Is Better Than You
We’d like to think the Flappy Bird mania is dying down, but we’re not sure. Just a couple of days ago we found out that someone had sold an iPad Mini preloaded with the game for $8,000, so crazy people are still crazy it seems. And it’s in the midst of all this craze that…
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The Confectionary Cannon Shoots Marshmallows Straight Into Your Mouth
Because what’s the point of going to engineering school if you can’t make a rig that shoots candy into your mouth, amirite? Well, a team of students at Olin College have created just that, and they called it the Confectionary Cannon. With a budget of $250, they took “four servos, a webcam, a solenoid and…
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Robots Teach Young Children How To Code
With a future increasingly overlaid in all things digital, it makes sense to raise an ever enlarging number of kids to become programmers; we’re going to need them, after all. And while learning the specifics of a coding language is better done after a certain age, getting acquainted with the concepts underlying programming can be…
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Dude Builds An Adorably Awesome Real-Life Wall-E Robot
Remember Wall-E? That scruffy but cute little bot who starred in his own movie five years ago? Well, now he’s made the ultimate of crossovers from the world of movies into real life. It didn’t involve magic or the involvement of studio giants, though. All it took to make it happen was one dedicated dude…